Thursday, June 2, 2011

Writing academic papers is a difficult job, especially for a non-native English person like me. Therefore, I have collected some standard English words, phrases, and structures. Hope it's also useful for you :)

a) Words and Phrases

... under consideration. (ex. ... is the token under consideration)

..., as well as ...

... due to + N

... that deal with the problem of ...

... take into account ...

... analyze ... in more detail.

... be out of the scope of ...

repeatedly

negligible

"alternatively" is preferred to the word "alternately" (unless you really mean something that alternates)

use "whereas" instead of "while" (unless you are referring to simultaneous events)

do not use "essentially" to mean "approximately" or "effectively"

do not use "issue" as a euphemism for "problem"

"affect" (usually a verb) and "effect" (usually a noun)

"et al." (italicized)

"e.g.," : for example (not italicized)

for ease of reference

table tabulates ...

Accordingly, ...

Comparison: N of N1 is Adj-er than of N2 (e.g., the range of values of some variable is bigger than of the others)

... present a ... algorithm based on..., which improves the quality of results at the expense of increased computational complexity.

They define ... to ... according to (N) ...

An important aspect of this method is .... (ex. its robustness to noise)

..., thus making the computational complexity prohibitive for ... (ex. generalization to 3-D)

How this methodology evolved is presented in the remaining sections of this ...

What is more relevant to our research is that ...

The authors do not explicitly require closure, but they also do not consider...

Along the same lines is ... technique for ...

Our results attained in different types of ....

Many approaches have been invoked.

Preliminary results of the proposed approach were published in our previous conference proceedings [5], [6]. In this paper, we discuss a novel view of our approach and present extensive quantitative comparison experiments on a large handwriting data set using approximately 10 scripts.